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Steering Committee

Steering Committee of the Center for International Development

CID Director: Ricardo Hausmann
Professor of the Practice of Economic Development
Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Ricardo Hausmann is Professor of the Practice of Economic Development at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and has been the Director of CID since 2005. Previously, he served as the first Chief Economist of the Inter-American Development Bank (1994-2000), where he created the Research Department. He has served as Minister of Planning of Venezuela (1992-1993) and as a member of the Board of the Central Bank of Venezuela. He also served as Chair of the IMF-World Bank Development Committee. His research interests include issues of growth, macroeconomic stability, international finance, and the social dimensions of development. He holds a PhD in economics from Cornell University.